The World's Fastest

Many moons ago, myself and a small community of early adopters, set out to design and build , literally

"The world's fastest video phone"

At the time, this was a powerful mantra, because video phones back in those days, suffered from jerky, photo like video and terrible audio to video synchronization.

The project, called WigiWigi, was, without a doubt, a labor of love.

It was not uncommon for me to release dozens of versions of the project every night, with each one ever so slowly inching towards faster and faster frame rates, until it was common knowledge, that WigiWigi, was without a doubt the world's fastest video phone.

The late Russel Shaw of ZDnet, covered my work, by writing an article about our first commercial release called Vwho.

http://blogs.zdnet.com/ip-telephony/?p=1040

The challenges were massive, everything was developed by hand, in both C and assembler. Audio compression, Video compression, network protocols, P2P layers etc, were all written completely from scratch, and optimized to the point, where, even today, the WigiWigi engine, still beats the pants off, virtually all of todays video phones.

The WigiWigi project, was a very satisfying chapter in my and the amazing crew of testers and community.


Today, "The World's Fastest...", is still at the core of everything I do.


Recently, this goal was immortalized, by a group of kids, who are known as sport stackers, who use MeBeam, to show off their skills to each other, and trying to break speed records in this unusual, yet, very cool, past time.

SportStacking, is the art of stacking and unstacking, plastic cups, into different formations at a blindingly fast pace.

Steven Purugganan, who is currently the world record holder for this, along with his friends, use Mebeam, to display their skills and try to smash record times.

MeBeam, is used, because, it allows people to communicate using video, at real-time speeds, without jerky, grainy movement.

Check out the following recordings of MeBeam sessions, to get an idea of how fast MeBeam and these guys are.

Comments

[Daniel Borgardt]

Yep. Go to room sportstacking

[Tobias Hofer]

Mebeam is really cool!
Every Evening you enter the Channel sporstacking you find stackers of all countries in the World